We could base a map on the Rhana Dandra, the final battle against Chaos. This would make the whole fighting thing make alot more sense, and also since it hasn't been staged in any codex's, and just a little fluff, it would give us a whole load of freedom to base it on.

It is said that the Emperor will take part in it, and Horus will be fighting against Chaos, for he somehow was reincarnated and also regained his sanity. This battle will probably have only the all-powerfull characters from Warhammer 40k, such as Primarches (and essentially Phoenix Lords) and exeedingly powerfull characters such as the C'tan, and every other worthy hero too, for the battle will potentially obliderate the Matterium and the Immaterium.

Tis just a suggestion, feel free to shun it and call it ridiculous, but hey from an AoS POV it wouldn't look too silly, as in the current AoS we do have Orks siding with Chaos, and C'tan too... When was the last time the C'tan decided to have buddies?

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The Rhana Dandra is the Eldar war of destruction.. The Chaos Gods will launch their final assault on the Eldar and wipe them, and their pantheon, out of existence.. It never says if any of the other races will take part, or even have knowledge of the battle..

Horus is gone for good - his soul was obliterated during the Emperor's final psychic assault. If his soul had survived, the Chaos Gods would've ressurected him along time ago.. And then his body was destroyed by the remnants of the Sons of Horus..

The C'tan aren't a part of the Materium or the Immaterium, so I don't see them giving a crap what happens.. Though I guess even in their etheric form they require stars in the Materium to feed on..

Anyway, a Horus Heresy LotRish would be ... massive.. Its battles spanned pretty much the entire galaxy.. I'd suggest going with something like the Jackson Valley Campaign from SC where it's individual battles in chronological order instead of an open map.. Isstvan III / V, Signus Prime, Calth, Terra, et cetera..

DeusMechanicus wrote:Anyway, a Horus Heresy LotRish would be ... massive.. Its battles spanned pretty much the entire galaxy.. I'd suggest going with something like the Jackson Valley Campaign from SC where it's individual battles in chronological order instead of an open map.. Isstvan III / V, Signus Prime, Calth, Terra, et cetera..

yeah, that was my main problem with that project its too freaken huge for a single map to do.if i could somehow fit it, it would be epic (it would go great for that theme, i guess)

is there any momentus battle that spans a large enough area (but not too large) in the HH that would be condensable into a LotRish style?like the battle on terra? was there a large siege or was it just a small number of people?(i dont know my HH fluff very well >.>)

<_< The Imperial Palace was under siege, and it was epic. Rogal Dorn bolstered the palaces defences further than they normally were. Titans were used, Sanguinus was breaking Bloodthirster's backs. It was half of the remaining loyalist forces against all the traitor legions. Horus was forced to allow the Emperor onto his battle barge for their duel to try and end it since the rest of the loyal legions were like a day away from Terra.

But, yeah, the Siege of Holy Terra could be made into a LotRish map easily.. The thing about the Imperial Palace is ... it's kind of like the Vatican, it IS its own city.. It's a massive complex, not just a single structure..

Signus Prime was a planet wide battle between daemonic hosts, a Bloodthirster and Greater Daemon vs Sanguinius and his Blood Angels legion..

Calth ... was fought mostly underground, in habspires and whatnot.. Between the traitor Word Bearers and the loyalist Ultramarines..

The Blood Angels are dispatched by Horus to the Signus cluster under the false pretense of putting down a rebellion. They arrive to a daemonic onslaught...

Possible Blood Angel heroes:Sanguinius, the Blood AngelAzkaellon, Sanguinius' HeraldChaplain BerusRaldoron, Master of the GuardDreadnaught LeonatusTerminator SaevinDreadnaught Cloten... and a whole number of other minor characters mentioned in the novels

Possible Chaos heroes:Kyriss the Perverse (Keeper of Secrets)Ka'Bandha (Bloodthirster)... and any number of cookie-cutter daemonic servants

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Battle for Calth...

Horus dispatches the Word Bearers to destroy the Ultramarine staging point on Calth, to prevent them from reinforcing Terra during the upcoming battle...

The point being of this idea that anything is possible and nothing has been written, apart from it being the final battle against chaos and everything.

@ dues, you might want to look into Rhana Dandra a bit, a popular belief of this final battle is this; the emperor and all the patriarchs (even horus, though not insane and corrupted anymore) will be reborn and lead the imperium on a holy crusade against chaos that will end with the chaos gods destruction and the emperor asending to god-hood.

but alas there is nothing I can say, or you can say is right or wrong, it just simply hasn't been officially outlined by the warhammer guys.

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There's a massive difference between what people want to happen (ie; popular belief) and what GW has actually put out on the subject.. The prophecy of the Rhana Dandra concerns only the Eldar - the Pheonix Lords will summon all the Eldar together for one final showdown with Slaanesh. All the Eldar will perish, Feugan last. With Feugan's dying breath, Ynnead will awaken in the Warp and fight to decide Slaanesh's fate once and for all. If too many of the Infinity Circuits have been damaged / destroyed, then Ynnead will not be powerful enough to defeat Slaanesh..

Or he will do the gendark thing and succeed Slaanesh as the god of wispers

_________________The warrior who acts out of honour cannot fail. His duty is honour itself. Even his death - if it is honourable - is a reward and can be no failure, for it has come through duty. Seek honour as you act, therefore, and you will know no fear.